Subhead:This Remembrance Day, we remember the fallen… and how we treated the ones who came home.#
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Bravery and Betrayal isn’t just another documentary. It’s the kind of project that forces Australia to confront its own amnesia.
As director Simon J. Heath told me, the film is built on the voices of “the SAS veterans themselves, the widows … the families.” It’s their account of what really happened, what they “saw with their own eyes and what they experienced.”
He summed the film up simply: “The story is one of bravery.” After 9/11, he recalls, “everyone thought that there was going to be terrorist attacks against Australia,” and our special forces were sent into harm’s way to stop that threat at its source. They “did smash terror cells over there” and tried to make Afghanistan “a place that was a good place to live.”
